The collection consists of manuscripts, letters, articles by Chesterton, as well as articles about him, photographs, and drawings. In addition to the material described in this finding aid, the collection also includes over 2,000 books and periodicals that have been cataloged separately.

Acquisition and Processing Note: The bulk of the G. K. Chesterton collection was acquired in 1965 from Notre Dame alumnus, John Bennett Shaw ('37). Over the years items have been added. Arranged and described 2014, by Kenneth Kinslow and Zoe Thrumston. Finding aid 2014, by Kenneth Kinslow and Zoe Thrumston.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a man of diverse talents; he was an artist, poet, dramatist, novelist, philosopher, biographer, literary and art critic, and Christian apologist, but above all, he was a journalist. After attending the Slade School of Art, be began writing book reviews and then weekly columns for various papers. Such opinions as his opposition to the Boer War in 1899 attracted attention. He soon published several volumes of verse, and in 1901 he married Frances Blogg. His output continued to expand with such works as Heretics, biographical studies on Browning and Dickens, and such works of fiction as: The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Club of Queer Trades. However, despite the varied interests, he continued to spend much of his time on journalism. In 1905 he began writing a weekly column for The Illustrated London News and continued this column until his death. At the same time he was involved in editing a series of journals: The Eye-Witness (1911-1914), The New Witness (1914-1923), and G. K.'s Weekly (1925-1936). In 1922 he converted to Catholicism, which, because of his theological, spiritual, and conservative bent, almost seemed inevitable. His circle of friends included: George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Hillaire Belloc, and Max Beerbohm.

With regard to Chesterton's most important and most popular works, readers disposed toward his philosophic and theological side often cite Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. With regard to biographical studies, some critics have credited Chesterton's work on Dickens as the book that heralded a scholarly appreciation of the 19th-century English author. Much of Chesterton's verse is occasional and topical; however, the British poet Humbert Wolfe believed that Chesterton's poetry would outlive his prose. With regard to fiction, The Man Who Was Thursday is often regarded as his best novel; however, the detective priest, Father Brown, who is at the center of five books of short stories, is his best-loved character.

Of added interest is Chesterton's association with the University of Notre Dame. While at the height of his fame in the fall of 1930, he came to the university as a visiting professor of English literature. He taught two courses of eighteen lectures each in Washington Hall, one on Victorian literature and one on Victorian political history. During his time at Notre Dame Chesterton fully embraced the life of the campus, even attending a football game; the team that year won the national championship in what was to be Knute Rockne's final season. The football game inspired Chesterton to write the poem "The Arena," which he dedicated to Notre Dame.

The collection includes letters, manuscripts, published articles by Chesterton, published articles about him, photographs, drawings and sketches by Chesterton, and such miscellaneous items as a recording of some of Chesterton's verse. With regard to the letters, they are limited in number: a few by Chesterton and his wife Frances and several by Cecil Chesterton, the author's younger brother. Among the literary manuscripts are such essays as: Divorce versus Democracy and The United States and the World War as well as a typed manuscript of The Incredulity of Father Brown. The stories in the Father Brown book were first published in serials, and the manuscript in the collection represents that step between serial publication and book form. Many of the articles are loose, some are in scrapbook form. For example, the collector John Bennett Shaw organized many of Chesterton's early articles (1905-1907) from the Daily News of London into one scrapbook, while another is organized around articles from the Illustrated London News. Another scrapbook is comprised of articles when Chesterton died in 1936, while other scrapbooks are more disparate in nature. With regard to G. K. Chesterton's sketches and drawings, some are pen and ink, others pencil, while still others are pastels or watercolors. Some of the sketches and drawings were done to illustrate one of his own works such as The Club of Queer Trades and others to illustrate a work like Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone. Some of the sketches and drawings were never published.

The books and periodicals that have been cataloged separately include many different editions of Chesterton's work, among them many first editions; translations of Chesterton into other languages; runs of such serials with which Chesterton was associated as: The New Witness and G. K.'s Weekly; and other items.

The collection is arranged in seven series. Series 1 is manuscripts comprised primarily of letters and literary manuscripts. Series 2 is comprised of articles, those by G. K. Chesterton and those about him. Series 3 is "Other Print" -- that is, items that do not fall into the category of articles -- for example, a Christmas card printed up for Frances and G. K. Chesterton or the Distributist League manifesto. Series 4 is photographs. Series 5 is sketches and drawings. Series 6 is audio, which contains only one item, and series 7 is comprised of the items of one of John Bennett Shaw's scrapbooks; unlike the other scrapbooks, it contains miscellaneous items: mourning cards, playbills, a script for an episode on Chesterton on Catholic Hour, etc.

The British Library in London has the best collection of Chesterton papers; however, Chesterton was so prolific that excellent collections can be found in New York Public, the Harry Ransom Center, and many other places. At Notre Dame, besides the collection described here, the Archives on campus hold manuscripts, letters, and other materials.

Letters. Cecil Chesterton to Edith Bland, 1905-1912. Folder 2 (MSE/MD 3718-2)10 items, ALsS, 44 pages.Mrs. Edith Bland née Edith Nesbit was an author and poet. One letter bears the date June 13, 1905; the rest of the letters are undated; however, the last letter is on the business stationary of The Eye-Witness, a serial Cecil Chesterton purchased and began editing in 1912.

Letters. G. K. Chesterton and R. Brimley Johnson, 1908. Folder 3 (MSE/MD 3718-3)2 items, 1 ALS, 1 TLS, 2 pages.Letters refer to a projected series of books called the "Bath Classics" and more specifically to Don Quixote. R. Brimley Johnson was a friend and publisher. One letter is dated August 13, 1908, while the other is undated.

Note. Cecil Chesterton, 1915 July 16. Folder 5 (MSE/MD 3718-5)1 item, TNS, 1 page.The note reads: "With love and grateful remembrance to the American Republic and to the University of Notre Dame in particular." The note was taken from a copy of Cecil Chesterton's book The Prussian hath said in his heart (London: Chapman and Hall, 1914); however, the circumstances of the note are unknown.

Letters. G. K. Chesterton to E. C. Bentley, 1893-1920. Folder 6 (MSE/MD 3718-6)4 items, 2 ALsS, 1 TLS, 1 TL, 9 pages.E. C. Bentley was an English writer best known for his detective novel Trent's Last Case; his friendship with Chesterton went back to their schooldays together at St. Paul's.

Letters. G. K. Chesterton to Ernest Oldmeadow, 1935 March 11-18. Folder 8 (MSE/MD 3718-8)2 items, 1 TLS, 1 TNS, 2 pages.This letter concerning a pageant to be staged by the Catholic Drama League was sent jointly by Chesterton and others. It is accompanied by a note from Dorothy Collins, Chesterton's secretary, to Ernest Oldmeadow, best known as the editor of The Tablet.

Letter. G. K. Chesterton to O'Sullivan, 1935 August 2. Folder 9 (MSE/MD 3718-9)1 item, TLS, 2 pages.Chesterton expresses his gratitude to an unknown correspondent for help with a citation.

Letters. Frances Chesterton to Nora Crimmins, 1936. Folder 11 (MSE/MD 3718-11)2 items, 2 ALsS, 6 pages, with envelope.Nora Crimmins was a librarian in the public library in Chattanooga (Tennessee); the Chestertons befriended her during one of their trips to the U.S.

G. K. Chesterton. "A New Book on Children," 1896. Folder 13 (MSE/MD 3718-13)1 item, AMs, 1 page.Folder includes a single torn page proposing a book for children about trades and professions; the page is tentatively dated as going back to 1896.

G. K. Chesterton. "The Respectability of Bohemians," 1914. Folder 15 (MSE/MD 3718-15)1 item, TMsS, 4 pages.Book review of W. R. Titterton's Me as a Model (London: Frank and Cecil Palmer, 1914); a reproduction of an Alvin L. Coburn photograph portrait of G.K.C. is inserted as a frontispiece of this small bound manuscript.

G. K. Chesterton. "Divorce Versus Democracy," 1916. Folder 16 (MSE/MD 3718-16)1 item, AMsS, 13 pages.Holograph manuscript of the essay "Divorce Versus Democracy," which was published in Nash's Magazine and later in pamphlet form in 1916; small bound manuscript includes a frontispiece reproduction of a Howard Coster photograph portrait of G.K.C.

G. K. Chesterton. "The Arena," 1930. Folder 20 (MSE/MD 3718-20)1 item, TMsS, 3 pages.This poem dedicated to the University of Notre Dame was inspired by Chesterton's attendance of a football game at the stadium on October 11, 1930.

G. K. Chesterton. "The United States and the World War," n.d. Folder 27 (MSE/MD 3718-27)1 item, TMS, 4 pages.This small bound manuscript has a reproduction of a Howard Coster photograph as its frontispiece.

G. K. Chesterton. "Suggestions for the Name of the Second Master Oldershaw," n.d. Folder 28 (MSE/MD 3718-28)1 item, AMs, 4 pages.Humorous handwritten notes with regard to naming the son of Chesterton's friend, Lucian Oldershaw.

G. K. Chesterton. Manuscript of The Incredulity of Father Brown, n.d. Folder 29 (MSE/MD 3718-29)1 item, TMs, 152 pages.Typed manuscript and revised magazine pages have corrections written in Chesterton's own hand. The 8 stories that comprise The Incredulity of Father Brown were originally published in Cassell's Magazine and in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine before they were gathered and published as a book in 1926.

Subseries 3: Other

G. K. Chesterton. Signature, n.d. Folder 30 (MSE/MD 3718-30)1 item, AMsS, 1 page.Signature appears to be taken from the minutes of a meeting of "G. K.'s Weekly," over which Chesterton presided as chairman.

Series 2: Articles

Subseries 1: Articles by G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton. Miscellaneous articles, 1905-1907. Folder 31 (MSE/MD 3718-31)44 items, 147 pages.Scrapbook of clippings of early articles written by Chesterton and published in the Daily News (of London) from 1905 to 1907. Chesterton wrote for that newspaper from 1905 to 1913.

G. K. Chesterton. "The Turkey and the Turk" and other articles, 1925, December 5. Folder 35 (MSE/MD 3718-35)1 journal issue, 48 pages.This is the Christmas issue of G.K'.s Weekly, Vol II No. 38. The issue is signed by a number of the contributors such as Hilaire Belloc and Chesterton himself.

G. K. Chesterton, "Music at Meals", 1930-1931. Folder 36 (MSE/MD 3718-36)1 item, 1 page.In a short newspaper article Chesterton suggests that music and meals do not necessarily mix. Article was originally published in the "Our Note Book" section of the Illustrated London News on August 18, 1923.

G. K. Chesterton. Essays by G. K. Chesterton, 1931. Folder 37 (MSE/MD 3718-37)1 item, 44 pages.This group of 6 essays edited by Kyohei Hagiwara and published in Tokyo is basically a language text for Japanese students of English.

"Chesterton Lectures on Paganism and Puritanism," 1931 January. Folder 38 (MSE/MD 3718-38)1 item, 8 pages.Article is a description of Chesterton's lecture at St. Mary's in Baltimore during his second trip to the U.S. It appeared in a student publication, The Voice magazine, Vol III. No. 4.

G. K. Chesterton. Miscellaneous articles, 1933. Folder 41 (MSE/MD 3718-41)8 items, 47 pages.Tear sheets from a variety of publications, including Father Brown stories that appeared in the popular American weekly Liberty.

G. K. Chesterton. Miscellaneous articles, 1933-1934. Folder 42 (MSE/MD 3718-42)9 items, 34 pages.Folder includes clippings of an article on George Bernard Shaw published in the New York Herald Tribune and tear sheets of a Father Brown story that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.

G. K. Chesterton. Miscellaneous articles, 1934. Folder 43 (MSE/MD 3718-43)6 items, 26 pages.Folder includes a Father Brown story that appeared in Collier's.

G. K. Chesterton. Miscellaneous articles, 1935. Folder 46 (MSE/MD 3718-46)7 items, 50 pages.Tear sheets from The American Review, Commonweal, and other publications. Folder includes 3 copies of the story "The Three Horsemen of Apocalypse."

G. K. Chesterton. Miscellaneous articles, 1935-1938. Folder 47 (MSE/MD 3718-47)7 items, 22 pages.Tear sheets from The New Current Digest and other publications, and clippings from the Chicago Herald Examiner. Folder includes the cover of a book catalog, for which Chesterton did the drawing.

G. K. Chesterton. Miscellaneous articles, 1936. Folder 48 (MSE/MD 3718-48)6 items, 43 pages.Tear sheets and clippings from various publications including The New York Times. Folder includes 2 copies of the essay "Persecuting the Common Man" published in the American Mercury.

G. K. Chesterton. Miscellaneous articles, 1936-1938. Folder 49 (MSE/MD 3718-49)9 items, 47 pages.Tear sheets and clippings from various publications including The Review of Literature. Folder includes excerpts from the posthumously published Autobiography.

Misccellaneous writers. Miscellaneous articles, 1901-1903. Folder 58 (MSE/MD 3718-58)7 items, 24 pages.Folder includes an early "appreciation" by C. F. G. Masterman (published in The Bookman) and reviews of such volumes as Robert Browning and Heretics.

Miscellaneous writers. Miscellaneous articles, 1911-1912. Folder 61 (MSE/MD 3718-61)5 items, 34 pages.Folder includes a review of Alarms and Discussions and tear sheets from The Dial and The Forum

Miscellaneous writers. Miscellaneous articles, 1913. Folder 62 (MSE/MD 3718-62)7 items, 11 pages.Folder includes such articles as "Chesterton as an Artist" by Joseph Gilder (published in the Bookman) and "Chesterton as a Champion of Women Novelists" (published in Current Opinion).

Miscellaneous writers. Miscellaneous articles, 1917-1918. Folder 66 (MSE/MD 3718-66)6 items, 32 pages.Tear sheets include two copies of "The English Intellectual in War-time" by S. K. Ratcliffe, published in The Century Magazine.

Miscellaneous writers. Miscellaneous articles, 1933-1934. Folder 81 (MSE/MD 3718-81)15 items, 27 pages.Tear sheets and clippings include a number of reviews on Chesterton's book St. Thomas Aquinas.

Miscellaneous writers. Miscellaneous articles, 1905-1942. Folder 82 (MSE/MD 3718-82)39 items, 77 pages.Tear sheets from the Illustrated London News collected in a scrapbook. Some of these are contributions by Chesterton, others appreciations of him for his work on the periodical from 1905 until his death in 1936.

The Clepsydra, 1936 Autumn. Folder 83 (MSE/MD 3718-83)1 issue, 108 pages.This issue (v. 7, no. 1) of The Clepsydra, a publication of Mundelein College (Chicago, IL), features a number of articles on Chesterton.

Miscellaneous writers. Miscellaneous articles. 1936-1939. Folder 88 (MSE/MD 3718-88)1 scrapbook, 395 pages.Clippings and articles collected by John Bennett Shaw into a scrapbook. Scrapbook includes an article in the periodical Pax that was written by Father John J. O'Connor, the prototype of Father Brown. Many of the articles are tributes to Chesterton written upon his death in 1936.

"Poetry of Faith," 1946 July 1. Folder 90 (MSE/MD 3718-90)1 item, 1 page.Short article reviews The Goldden Book of Catholic Poetry and highlights Chesterton's poem "The Convert." The author of the article which appeared in Time is not indicated.

John W. Simmons. "Capsule of TNT," 1947 December 25. Folder 92 (MSE/MD 3718-92)1 issue, 4 pages.Article which appears on page 1 and is continued on page 4 was printed in Sheed and Ward's Own Trumpet, No. 14. The article is a review of Hugh Kenner's book Paradox in Chesterton.

"If You Thought You'd Read Everything of Chesterton's," 1950 September. Folder 94 (MSE/MD 3718-94)1 issue, 12 pages.The author of this article printed in Sheed and Ward's Own Trumpet No. 24 is not indicated. On 8 of the issue's 12 pages, quotations from Chesterton's The Common Man are inserted.

John R. Cartwright. "Address on G. K. Chesterton," 1951 December 6. Folder 98 (MSE/MD 3718-98)1 item, 24 pages.Cartwright, a justice of the supreme court of Canada, addressed the Newman Club of Ottawa (Canada). Folder includes a note from Kathleen Taylor, a librarian and Newman Club member, who donated the item to a Chesterton bibliographer.

"G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy," 1952 January 18. Folder 101 (MSE/MD 3718-101)1 issue, 36 pages.The author of this article that appeared on pages 44 and 45 of The Times Literary Supplement No. 2607 is unidentified.

D. W. "Strength of the House," 1952 February 16. Folder 104 (MSE/MD 3718-104)1 issue, 20 pages.The author of this short article is unidentified. This response to Maisie Ward's Return to Chesterton was published on page 133 of The Tablet, Vol. 199, No. 5830. Another short note on the prototype of Father Brown appears on that same page.

J. J. Dwyer. "More G. K. C.," 1953 November 28. Folder 112 (MSE/MD 3718-112)1 issue, 20 pages.Short review of the book A Handful of Authors, a collection of essays by Chesterton, appeared on pages 521-522 of The Tablet, Vol. 202, No. 5923.

Article entitled "Father Alec," 1954 June 19. Folder 113 (MSE/MD 3718-113)1 issue, 20 pages.Author is not indicated in the short review of a film in which Alec Guinness portrays Father Brown. Article appeared on page 589 in the "From Our Notebook" section of The Tablet Vol. 203 No. 5952.

R. A. Scott-James. "The Genius of Chesterton," 1957 April 29. Folder 119 (MSE/MD 3718-119)1 issue, 24 pages.Article on pages 20-21 of The New Republic on the occasion of the publication of a new Chesterton anthology.

Miscellaneous writers. Miscellaneous articles, 1940-1962. Folder 127 (MSE/MD 3718-127)Scrapbook, 263 pages, with inserted material between some of the leaves.John Bennett Shaw's scrapbook contains clippings and articles from a wide variety of sources: from the London Times and the New Yorker to newspapers from Australia. Scrapbook includes letters from different book dealers offering various Chesterton items.

Neville Braybooke. "G. K. Chesterton," 1963 April 18-24. Folder 128 (MSE/MD 3718-128)1 issue, 44 pages.Braybrooke's article was part of the "Great Writers" series and appeared on pages 22-23 in Time and Tide, Vol. 44 No. 16.

Paul Hurley. "The Man who made the English-speaking Catholic world," 1970 July. Folder 129 (MSE/MD 3718-129)1 issue, 40 pages.Hurley's article about Hilaire Belloc discusses Chesterton as well. It was published on pages 24 to 28 in The Word.

Miscellaneous authors. Miscellaneous articles, n.d. Folder 142 (MSE/MD 3718-142)10 items, 10 pages.Folder includes postcards, a newspaper clipping with a review of Chesterton's work on Cobbett, a photocopy of an article from theThe San Diego Union, and other items.

G. K. Chesterton. "Our Day," 1915 October 21. Folder 144 (MSE/MD 3718-144)1 pamphlet, 2 pages.The poem was to benefit the British Red Cross and the soldiers at the front. It was published in the Daily Telegraph on the same day.

G. K. Chesterton. Poem, 1946 June 15. Folder 147 (MSE/MD 3718-147)2 issues, 12 pages each.This previously unpublished poem was written on the fly-leaf of The Wild Knight, Chesterton's first book of poetry, published in 1900. Here it is printed on page 306 of The Tablet, Vol. 187 No. 5536. Folder includes 2 issues.

The Distributist League. Manifesto, n.d. Folder 150 (MSE/MD 3718-150)1 item, 14 pages.This manifesto for the economic ideology, distributism, shows Chesterton as the league president on the title-page.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, Tennis player and study of three heads, 1898. Folder 157 (MSE/MD 3718-157)Pen and black ink on paper, 17 x 22 cm. Signed "G. K. Chesterton / Secretary" at lower right.The tennis player on the right of the folded sheet seems unrelated to the sketches on the left.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "The cries appeared to come from a decapitated head resting on hte pavement," 1905. Folder 158 (MSE/MD 3718-158)Pencil on paper, 25 x 17 cm.Chesterton's variation on an illustration for his novel The Club of Queer Trades.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "My account? And what have I got to do with it?" 1905. Folder 159 (MSE/MD 3718-159)Pencil on paper, 25 x 22 cm. "Not this" written at lower right.Variation on an illustration for the novel The Club of Queer Trades.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "Do you know where you are, Major?" 1905. Folder 160 (MSE/MD 3718-160)Pencil on paper, 17 x 25 cm. Notes on the back of the page.Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "My account? And what have I got to do with it?" 1905. Folder 161 (MSE/MD 3718-161)Pencil on paper, 25 x 17 cm.Illustration for the The Club of Queer Trades. Sketch on the back of the page is of the same characters.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, No title. 1905. Folder 162 (MSE/MD 3718-162)Pencil on paper, 23 x 25 cm.Sketch of Basil Grant, a character in the novel The Club of Queer Trades. Note on bottom right of the page: "not this."

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "There is the wickedest man in London," 1905. Folder 163 (MSE/MD 3718-163)Pen and ink on paper, 17 x 22 cm.Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "They went in quite undisguised, tied up in wisps of string or straw, to the delight of the poetic gutter boys," 1905. Folder 164 (MSE/MD 3718-164)Pencil on paper, 25 x 22 cm.Variation of an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades; Note on bottom right: "Not this" -- probably an indication that this sketch would not be used.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "Our eyes were fixed where his were fixed, upon something on the counter. It was a ferret." 1905. Folder 166 (MSE/MD 3718-166)Pen and ink on paper, 22 x 17 cm.Variation on an illustration for the The Club of Queer Trades.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "Suddenly Basil stopped and turned to us, his hands in his pockets," 1905. Folder 167 (MSE/MD 3718-167)Pen and ink on paper, 17 x 22 cm..Variation of an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "'My dear fellow,' he cried, shaking Basil's hand again and again, 'I have not seen you for years.'" 1905. Folder 169 (MSE/MD 3718-169)Pen and ink on paper, 22 x 17 cm.Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "What do you make of that?" 1905. Folder 170 (MSE/MD 3718-170)Pencil on paper, 22 x 30 cm.Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "My proposal is that the government should pay Professor Chadd £800 a year until he stops dancing," 1905. Folder 171 (MSE/MD 3718-171)Pencil on paper, 22 x 30 cm.Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "James was standing on one leg," 1905. Folder 172 (MSE/MD 3718-172)Pencil on paper, 22 x 30 cm.Variation of an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "They were still dancing. . .," 1905. Folder 173 (MSE/MD 3718-173)Pencil on paper, 22 x 30 cm. Notes on bottom and left side of page.Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "They followed each other round and round . . . one writing in pencil with the face of a man working out a problem, the other leaping and playing like a child," 1905. Folder 174 (MSE/MD 3718-174)Pencil on paper, 22 x 30 cm.Variation on an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Drawings. G. K. Chesterton, Max Beerbohm, and F. Carruthers Gould, Three men playing flutes. 1908-1909. Folder 178 (MSE/MD 3718-178)Pen and ink drawings, each 20 x 11 cm.Notes and signatures at bottom of each drawing. The last page of these two album leaves includes a single staff of music and lyrics.

Drawing. Thomas Derrick, Sir Gilbert de Paradoc, 1930. Folder 181 (MSE/MD 3718-181)Pencil on paper, 28 x 36 cm. .Portrait of Chesterton as a knight, Sir Gilbert de Paradoc, mounted on a charging steed; notes and signature on bottom right of page. Thomas Derrick (1885-1954) was an English artist, particularly known for his work as an illustrator and cartoonist.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe. 1920. Folder 182 (MSE/MD 3718-182)Pencil on paper, 20 x 26 cm.Notes on bottom of page. Poe is pictured with a monster and a raven; drawing is inscribed "When Prose comes in at the door Poetry flies out of the window".

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "The New Witness," n.d. Folder 183 (MSE/MD 3718-183)Pencil on paper, 22 x 18 cm. Signature on bottom right of page.Drawing of a witness in court. Sketched on G. K. C.'s stationary from his Overroads, Beaconsfield residence where he lived from 1909 until 1922.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "Eugenics," 1922. Folder 184 (MSE/MD 3718-184)Charcoal on paper, 22 x 18 cm. Initials on bottom right of page.Drawing of a man bullying a much smaller man with a knife. G. K. C. was strongly against Nietzcschean eugenics and the Shavian "Superman." Ties to G. K. C.'s collection of essays, Eugenics and Other Evils (London, 1922).

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, Self portrait, 1922 January 4. Folder 185 (MSE/MD 3718-185)Pencil on paper, mounted on black paper, 16 x 11 cm. Notes on top and bottom of the page. Inscribed "A busy and unscrupulous career... that of a journalist." Signature in bottom right.Quote comes from Chesterton's lecture on Dickens at the Hague, 1922.

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "Pictures from the Paintbox" 5 and 6, n.d. Folder 187 (MSE/MD 3718-187)Two drawings, watercolor on paper, 15 x 12 cm. Initials at bottom of both drawings.Drawings entitled The Crimson Lake and Ivory Black. The first shows a red sea with animals, and the second a figure with black face riding an elephant. Drawings were published in The Coloured Lands, a collection of Chesterton's prose and verse with his own illustrations (London: Sheed and Ward, 1938).

Drawing. G. K. Chesterton, "Pictures from the Paintbox" 3 and 4, n.d. Folder 188 (MSE/MD 3718-188)Two drawings, watercolor on paper, 15 x 12 cm. Initials at bottom of both drawings.Drawings entitled Chinese White and Burnt Siena. Drawings come from a series entitled Pictures from the Paintbox/, published in The Coloured Lands (1938).

Drawings. G. K. Chesterton, Illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's Shelock Holmes, 2003. Folder 195A (MSE/MD 3718-195A)Reproduction of 19 drawings, colored pencil on paper, each one 28 x 22 cm.The originals are in the Lilly Library at IU-Bloomington. These facsimiles were published in a limited edition of 50 by the Baker Street Irregulars.

Letter. Cecil Chesterton, 1916 October 12. Folder 213 (MSE/MD 3718-213)TLS, 3 pages.Addressee of the letter written on New Witness stationery is unidentified. Letter deals with Cecil Chesterton's induction into the service and with G. K. Chesterton's assumption of editorial responsibilities.

Letter. G. K. Chesterton, 1923 August 16. Folder 214 (MSE/MD 3718-214)TLS, 1 page.Addressee of this letter written on the stationery of G.K.C.'s Weekly is unidentified; letter deals with the prospects of the new publication.

G. K. Chesterton. Galleys and typescript, 1930-1931. Folder 220 (MSE/MD 3718-220)3 galleys, 5 pages; TMS, 3 pages.Galleys for three articles: "The Greek Mask," "Marriage and the Modern Mind," and "The True Sin of Bolshevism." Folder includes the typescript for "The Green Mask."

Letter. John Sullivan to John Bennett Shaw, 1958 June 18. Folder 224 (MSE/MD 3718-224)ALS, 2 pages; 2 book order forms.John Sullivan's letter to Shaw concerns G. K. Chesterton: a Bibliography, which was about to be published. Sullivan's bibliography is a highly regarded Chesterton source.

John Bennett Shaw. Paper on G. K. Chesterton, 1937. Folder 226 (MSE/MD 3718-226)TMs, 27 pages.Shaw's undergraduate paper touches upon the following novels: The Napolean of Notting Hill, Man Alive, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Flying Inn, The Ball and the Cross, and The Return of Don Quixote. Paper includes notes and commentary by Professor John T. Frederick.

G. K. Chesterton. Poems: "To Father O'Connor," n.d. Folder 228 (MSE/MD 3718-228)Copy, 2 pages.Poems were inscribed on the fly-leaves of Chesterton titles owned by Father John O'Connor, the prototype for the Father Brown character.

Collection Cards, n.d. Folder 234 (MSE/MD 3718-234)8 items.From the Robert John Bayer Collection of Chestertoniana. Folder also includes a postcard of the James Gunn painting of Chesterton, Baring, and Belloc, the original of which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London.